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FCC getting looser---let's pirate have STA until LPFM app is filed...

AugC said:
MOst of all LPFM's that I've heard...splatter on 2nd adjacents and play no "local" content. So, really, they really serve a handful of folks....that might be listening. The only good LPFM is WRPO-LP. All the ones that I have listened to are sat. fed. Very sad. There's more local content with the big wigs than that!!! C'mon folks....!!!! Didn't you hear....Clear Channel is selling off 400 plus stations!!! More mom and pops are buying them! Hopefully more "local" content. Really the spectrum is way too full. LPFM is not that bad if used properly...translators on the other hand are just plain rediculous. They really are the offenders.
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EVERY radio transmitter causes some interference. The question is it within the FCC regulations? I don't know whose LPFM you are listening to, or on what kind of radio you are having such problems. The problem could be your radio, not the LPFM station. There are a lot of variables, and I don’t know anything about your particular situation. All the LPFM's I've ever heard are not causing any illegal interference.

I agree that satellite feeds are an inappropriate use of either LPFM or Translators. I'm the GM of a successful local LPFM. We try very hard to "go by the book." In a market with 35 or so stations, we do quite well. LPFM does not have to mean "bad programming." You shouldn't make blanket statements. Neither LPFM stations nor translators are either good or bad. Properly engineered, they are more or less “value neutral. It’s what you choose to do with them that counts.
 
Here is a fairly even editorial from Guy Wire on the Goldfield "pirate" getting an STA.

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0048/t.3983.html

A couple of quotes that I thought summed up this whole issue well:

"Licensing a new radio station in an underserved area like Goldfield, Nev., should not have been that difficult...The real question here is really not that hard: Why should so many smaller population areas go without local radio service because the bar of entry remains much too high? The old rules that support the old model as the only means of doing broadcasting in these vast United States should be re-evaluated carefully. Other countries have done it and succeeded."

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